Celina construction shows double-standard in enforcement of laws – professor

Participants during one of yesterday’s CTO sessions, ‘Climate Change Adaptation; educating and innovating for tourism sustainability’.

The Celina Atlantic Resort has come in for strong criticism from a United States-based Professor of civil and environmental engineering as it is built on a mangrove growing area and also poses a sea defence threat.

Guyanese Dr. Maya Trotz made the observation while chairing a session on Climate Change Adaptation- Educat-ing and Innovating for Tourism Sustainability, at the Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Deve-lopment yesterday at the Guyana International Con-vention Centre at Liliendaal.

Expansion of the Celina Resort in an environmentally sensitive area and the possible risk to sea defences have frequently been raised in Stabroek News but the government has